La historia de Erika (2003)
Text Ruth Vander Zee
Illustration Roberto Innocenti
Original language English (Erika’s Story)
Publishing house Kalandraka
Edition 2014, Spanish
Featured book (Germany) - 2004
National Reading Plan (PLN Portugal)
Size 25,4 x 24,4
Pages 32
Translator Pilar Martínez and Xosé Manuel González
ISBN: 978-84-8464-521-4
- Spanish
- Galician
- Catalan
- Italian
- English
Catalan: La història de l’Erika
Galician: A historia de Erika
Italian: La storia di Erika
La historia de Erika (Erika’s Story) is the story of a girl who was born in 1994. She does not know where she was born, what her parents named her, or whether she had any siblings. The only thing she knows for sure is that as a baby, just a few months old, she was saved from the Holocaust. Her mother threw her off the train. Someone picked her up and gave her to a woman, who took care of her, educated her and decided that she would be called Erika.
Today she is a grandmother, the tree of her life has roots again and her star still shines in the sky.
Decades have passed since the liberation of the Nazi death camps. Erika tells us her story because the best way to ensure that it is not repeated is to keep the memory alive.
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